ABSTRACT
Instead of an abstract discussion of methodology, the strategy adopted in this book was to work from concrete examples. By examining some actual research projects in detail, we proposed to investigate how researchers work and think in various branches of cognitive science, and what the implications of these different modes of operation are for the emergence of a mature field of cognitive science. In this section of the book we attempt to draw some conclusions. What have we learned from these examples? Are we now better equipped to avoid some of the pitfalls that, as we have argued, in Chapter I, threaten the young discipline of cognitive science? What indeed is or can be the nature of that discipline?
